Emptiness
I write about what happens when you stop treating spirituality and business as separate lives. These essays span awakening, consciousness, leadership, and the hard parts of integrating all of it - written from inside the experiment, not above it.
Most popular: The Monk and the Entrepreneur
Applied Spirituality - The Monk and the Entrepreneur
Pursuing inner peace and conscious awakening while building companies and raising a family.
Business is Closer to War than to Meditation
Holding the energetics of love and killing simultaneously - the nervous system training nobody talks about.
Practicing the Art of Consciousness
Consciousness as an art form that can be practiced in every moment of life.
Relaxation as Spiritual Awakening
A simple somatic exercise that points toward the direction of awakening.
Gratitude is an Opening of the Nervous System
What gratitude really is - not a reciprocal response but an active gesture of opening.
None of This is True
Why thinking can never reach the deepest truth - and why that's okay.
The Monk and the Entrepreneur - Part 2
The challenge of switching between spiritual depth and entrepreneurial speed.
The Separation of Oneness
A cosmological meditation on why consciousness chose to experience separation.
Four Thoughts About Time
Time seems obvious even to a child - and yet the whole structure unravels under the smallest probe.
Intellect and Intuition
Why optimizing for pure rationality is a pathology - and how to use both hands.
There is No Free Will
I've convinced myself free will doesn't exist. Now what?
The Right Amount of Ego
Ego exists on a spectrum - the Goldilocks zone between bliss and building rockets.
Three More Thoughts on Time
Time as pointer, integrity, and multiverse branching - continuing the inquiry.
Choosing to Suffer
Suffering is inevitable and chosen - not our default state.
Commitment to Action vs Attachment to Outcome
The secret to a productive life free from suffering.
Increasing Nervous System Capacity
How to build equanimity under pressure - nervous system training for the non-monastic path.
Commitment and Optionality, Power and Freedom
The trade-off between freedom and responsibility - and finding freedom within power.
Aligning Actions with Purpose
Three buckets for every activity in your life - and the secret to a successful one.
Climbers and Bursters
Two different work styles - and how understanding them transforms partnerships.
Four Leadership Archetypes
Active/passive, masculine/feminine - a 2x2 leadership framework from an unexpected place.
There Are No Adults in the Room
On ultimate responsibility and what separates the best founders from everyone else.
Think Alone, Fight Together
Solitude for strategy, togetherness for battle - and knowing when each is needed.